(Enmtwttott Latlg (Eampui? Serving Storrs Since 1896 VOL
Total Page：16
File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb
(Enmtwttott latlg (Eampui? Serving Storrs Since 1896 VOL. 1 XVI NO. 78 TOE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT, STORRS THURSDAY, MARCH 2, 1967 Peace Corps Director to Address Vaughn Grad Speaker Jack Hood Vaughn, director prize ring while still a teen- as director of its bl-natlonal cen- of the Peace Corps, will deliver ager, after his family moved to ter In La Paz, Bolivia In 1949. the "charge" to undergraduate Michigan. He fought 126 amateur Subsequently he served with degree candidates June 12 at the and 26 professional feather- the International Cooperation Ad- University of Connecticut's 84th weight bouts as "Johnny Hood" ministration, spent a year on the Commencement. and won three Michigan Golden faculty of the Johns Hopkins Mr. Vaughn, whose career Gloves championships. School of International Studies, runs the gamut of human endeavor He served as head boxing directed the U.S. Overseas Mis- from the boxing ring to the class- coach at the University of Mich- sion In Dakar, Africa and In 1961 room and from the battlefield to igan to help defray the cost of Joined the Peace Corps. the conference table, will speak his education there. As first Latin American re- In special exercises at the Field After a three-year tour of duty gional director for the Peace House. with the U.S. Marines — which Corps, he saw the number of The address by the former saw him in combat operations volunteers grow from slightly U.S. Ambassador to Panama will on Enlwetok, Guam and Oki- more than 100 In three countries be delivered by closed-circuit nawa—he returned to the Univer- to more than 3,000 In 17 nations. television to bachelor degree sity of Michigan to teach Spanish He left the Corps In 1964 to candidates from the College of and French while working for his become the U.S. Ambassador to Liberal Arts and Sciences gath- master's degree. Panama and 10 months later be- ered in the Jorgensen Auditor- Mr. Vaughn also spent a year came Assistant Secretary of ium. He will speak "live" at the teaching Spanish at the Univer- State for Inter-American Affairs Field House where undergrad- sity of Pennsylvania before Join- and U.S. Coordinator of the Al- uate degree candidates from the ing the U.S. Information Service liance for Progress. other Schools at the University will be gathered. Mr. Vaughn, named head of the Peace Corps In January 1966 Noted Sexologist to succeed Sargent Shrlver, has the distinction of being the only federal official to have served Reports on Youth every major U.S. government agency with overseas operation. The modern view of sex will tionships," and "Sex Education A native of Columbus, Mon- be outlined March 16 at the Uni- as Human Relations." tana, Mr. Vaughn entered the versity of Connecticut by author- A member of the National educator Lester R. Klrkendall of Council on Family Relations, Dr. Jack Hood Vaughn Oregon State University in the Klrkendall has served as a spe- latest In a series of public lec- cialist in sex education in the U.S. tures on "Sex and the Young A- Office of Education and as direc- dult." tor of the Association for Family Living. Double Summer Session Topic of Dr. Klrkendall'stalk, Dr. Klrkendall\s is the fourth to be delivered at 8 p.m. in the In a series of lectures arranged The University of Connecti- sessions are also oriented to the Ing the morning and afternoon Jorgensen Exhibit Hall, will be by the Department of Child De- cut, in a continuing program to needs of premedical, pre-dental only. However, Branch sessions "Sexual Morality In Today's World." velopment and Family Relations help students accelerate their and pre-veterlnary students, with begin June 12 rather than June in the School of Home Economics. college careers, again will of- a sequential program in human 13. A professor of family life at The series was made possible by fer a double-unit summer ses- physiology, bacteriology, com- Meantime, the customary six- Oregon State, Dr. Klrkendall Is a grant from the s&H Foundation sion for undergraduates this parative anatomy and organic week graduate session will run the author of "Premarital Inter- sponsored by the Sperry and year. chemistry scheduled. The ac- from June 26 to Aug. 4 atStorrs, course and Interpersonal Rela- Hutchinson Co. Stuart Manning, director of celerated organic chemistry with broad offerings In education the Summer Sessions disclosed course will be offered during an and 15 other fields. An additional today that two six-weak sessions eight-week period. three-week graduate session, will be held for undergraduates In keeping with the Univer- consisting of education work- B/oodmob/le Quota --from June 13 to July 21 and sity's policy of expanded edu- shops and seminars, will be held from July 24 to Sept. 1. cational opportunities, several Aug. 7-25. Under the double session stu- undergraduate courses, especi- A special 10-week session for Remains 600 Pints dents may handle up to 14 cred- ally at the advanced level, have students In the Sixth-Year Pro- its in a single summer, Mr. been added to this summer's cur- gram offered by the School of by Mil/ Erick Manning explained. riculum, the director noted. charges for lab services. Neigh- Education will commence June The Bloodmoblle is approach- boring states charge as much as Each of these classes will Similar double sessions will 26 and end Sept. 1. ing the UConn campus once again, meet five days a week for 80 $35-$75 per pint, depending on be offered at the Hartford, Wat- All registration this year will and Is Just around the corner. the kind, otherwise the patient's minutes each. It will again be erbury and Stamford Branches be in advance, starting March 13 Miss Vera Kaska, assistant pro- possible for students to com- of the University, Mr. Manning family have to replace It at a atStorrs Hall in theSummer Ses- fessor In the School of Physical two or three to one ratio. The plete foreign language require- said. The Hartford classes will sions Office, Room 127. Non- Therapy, said that comparative ments, which ordlnarly would meet in the mornings, late aft- average age of a donor is 40. resident students may register in figures of past Bloodmoblles in- The average donor started giv- take two academic years, in one ernoon and evening hours to per- person or by mall. Registrations dicate that In the fall of 1965, ing in early 1940's during WWII summer, Mr. Manning pointed mit students to work and study must be completed at least two 529 pints of blood were dona- out. part time. At Stamford and Wat- weeks before the beginning of the and gives regularly now. ted at the Storrs campus, in From the Storrs campus, the Furthermore, the summer erbury, classes will be held dur- session students wish to attend. the spring of 1966 were netted blood Is brought to Hartford and 572 pints and in the fall semes- distributed to 45 hospitals Yale Dean Reports Due to a misunderstanding, ter of 1966 we collected 724 throughout the state. Miss Kaska the late study facilities in pints. The quota needed this stated that only 8% of the popu- Koons Hall were being clos- spring Is 600 pints. lation give blood, and 16% of On Graduate Education ed at 10:30 p.m. rather than Miss Kaska, commenting on this Is donated at college campu- at the announced hour of the attitudes of the students, re- ses, but 100% of the population --An experiment lnproducing Education for Careers In College midnight. This misunder- porting that most of the students profits by it. At UConn last fall Ph. D. -less college teachers Teaching". standing has been cleared who were under 21 said that their only 7.8% of the girls responded was described at the University The UConn chapter of the up and Rooms 101, 103,104, parents would not give them per- and 5.5% of the boys. The re- of Connecticut Monday by one of American Association of Univer- 106, 108, 114, 116, 118 in mission for fear that the loss o. jection rate at colleges is much the nation's leading figures in sity Professors which is spon- Koons Hall will now be avai- one pint of blood would have a higher than anywhere else. This graduate education. soring Dean Miller's talk, notes lable for studying from 7:00 drastic adverse effect on them. Is due to the pre valance of raono- Dr. John Perry Miller, dean that the need for college teachers p.m. to midnight, Sunday There Is also, she added, some nucleosls, Inadequate diets, anfj fo the Yale University Graduate has been growing much faster through Friday nights. fear of the first venture to be poor sleeping habits. Colds also* School, discussed his institu- than the supply of Ph. D.'s. They overcomed. play a major role In the rejec- tion's experiences in a novel pro- also note that the Yale scholar When asked how UConn com- tion of students. gram designed to help produce is particularly well-equipped to British Gen. pares to other colleges In the It is Interesting to note that Instructors in the face of explo- tackle such questions as "can we state, she said that only Yale it costs the Red Cross $6.54 for sive demands. train graduate students more ra- has exceptional blood donations. every pint of blood It collects. Yale instituted a new grad- pidly without lowering stan- ROTC Guest Miss Kaska proceeded to ex- This is to pay for the salaries uate program which offers a de- dards?" plain how the Wood that is col- of doctors, nurses, and techni- gree beyond the M.A., but does Major-General R.